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The general word for these laws are blue laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_law I live in Colorado and bizarrely

The general word for these laws are blue laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_law I live in Colorado and bizarrely buying cars on Sunday is prohibited. One "nice" thing about this law is you can go walk a car lot on a Sunday without getting bugged by sales people.

amyjess 9y ago
> I live in Colorado and bizarrely buying cars on Sunday is prohibited. IIRC, Texas has a weird law where car dealers can be open on either Saturday or Sunday but not both.
- ghaff 9y ago
  In addition to church, one of the drivers of regulations around weekend closures is small businesses. The idea is that larger businesses can be open whenever it's profitable to hire people to work. Whereas many small businesses effectively require the owner to be present. Not arguing for that position but I've heard the argument around opening on Sunday. It's been a big shift in much of the US. In Massachusetts, almost nothing was open when I was in school and Sunday retail alcohol sales are a relatively recent thing. And there are still very weird alcohol-related laws in some towns.
  - MrMorden 9y ago
    If a business doesn't have enough employees to open seven days a week, there's nothing stopping them from picking the most profitable five or six. (Or, for that matter, providing a product that's sufficiently better for your store to do more business in six days than the competition does in seven.) In the UK, small businesses (as implemented, by floor area) are exempted from this particular blue law to give them an advantage. In practice, either they don't take advantage of it to open for a reasonable duration on Sunday (or any other day, for that matter) or they're too big and get screwed (as with the independent grocery stores mentioned in this article).

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The general word for these laws are blue laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_law I live in Colorado and bizarrely

by planteen 9y ago

amyjess 9y ago
> I live in Colorado and bizarrely buying cars on Sunday is prohibited. IIRC, Texas has a weird law where car dealers can be open on either Saturday or Sunday but not both.
- ghaff 9y ago
  In addition to church, one of the drivers of regulations around weekend closures is small businesses. The idea is that larger businesses can be open whenever it's profitable to hire people to work. Whereas many small businesses effectively require the owner to be present. Not arguing for that position but I've heard the argument around opening on Sunday. It's been a big shift in much of the US. In Massachusetts, almost nothing was open when I was in school and Sunday retail alcohol sales are a relatively recent thing. And there are still very weird alcohol-related laws in some towns.
  - MrMorden 9y ago
    If a business doesn't have enough employees to open seven days a week, there's nothing stopping them from picking the most profitable five or six. (Or, for that matter, providing a product that's sufficiently better for your store to do more business in six days than the competition does in seven.) In the UK, small businesses (as implemented, by floor area) are exempted from this particular blue law to give them an advantage. In practice, either they don't take advantage of it to open for a reasonable duration on Sunday (or any other day, for that matter) or they're too big and get screwed (as with the independent grocery stores mentioned in this article).